Psalms 119:23
Although even princes should sit and speak against me, thy servant would still meditate on thy statutes.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
In Context
22Roll away from me reproach and contempt; for thy testimonies have I kept.
24Also thy testimonies are my delight, my counsellors.
Cross References
1 Samuel 20:31For all the days that the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou wilt not have any permanence with thy kingdom: therefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.
Psalms 2:1Wherefore do nations rage, and people meditate a vain thing?
Psalms 119:161SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but of thy word standeth my heart in dread.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 119:23
22 Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies. Here, 1. David prays against the reproach and contempt of men, that they might be removed, or (as the word is) rolled, from off him. This intimates that they lay upon him, and that neither his greatness nor his goodness could secure him from being libelled and lampooned. Some despised him and endeavoured to make him mean; others reproached him and endeavoured to make him odious. It has often been the lot of those that do well to be… Read the whole commentary →